Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-12-02
Temperance Women.

temperance women.
NASHVILLE, Nov. 16-Nearly
every state and territory was repre-
sented at the meeting of the National
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ion in Watkins Hall this morning.
The hall is beautifully decorating
Upon the platform were seated Mrs
Judge Thompson, of Hillsboro, O.,
mother of the crusade in 1888; Pun
dita Ramabai, vice president of the
Wo. ld's Women's Christian Temper
ance Union for India, and the officers
of the National Union. Mrs. Han
nah w hitehall Smith, lately returned
from England, opened the convention
! with Bible reading on Love" At
its close Miss Willard gave the motto
for tho days to come. "rhere is Moth
ing Inexorable but Love-"
Mrs Lide Meriwether, president
of the Tennessee Union, occupied the
chair, while Miss Frances Willard,
president of the National Union, de-
livered the annual address, which
was frequently interrupted with ap-
plause.
| MISS wILLARD's ADDRESS.
Among other things, Miss Willard
said:
That there are not enough anti
saloon Rep ublicans at the North to
carry prohibition in single state
that is now struggling to secure it,
nor enough anti-saloon Democrats at
the South, has been proved in this
memorable year of our constitutional
defeats, but there are enough temper
ance people in both to take possession
of the Government and give us na-
tional prohibition in the party Of the
near future, which is to be the party
of God. Women should use their ut
most influence, and wherever they
have the school ballot they should
use that to engraft the kindergarten
upon the public school. Where this
can not be done, let the Wome ms
Christian Temperance Union estab-
lish one, but above all, let every
mother study the system and employ
it in her own home.
We must work out the manifest
ballot for women as means of en-
forcing prohibitory law and empha-
size more strongly than before the
National amendment which shall re-
move all legal disabilities from the
daug ghters of the Republic l believe
also that the prohibition party should
strongly state as its ultimate aim two
amendments to the National Consti.
tuition. The first calling for univer-
sal prohibition; the second ,enfranchis-
ing all the woman; and that it should
carefully study the platform of the La
Dor reformers, both Knights of Labor
and Changers, that it may incorporate
the principles of arbitration and CO.
operation into its own with any others
that seem to be based upon Christian
ethics and Christian brotherhood.
Among these is most assuredly in
volved equal wages as well as equal
moreal standards for women and men;
heavier penalties for crime against
women and the raising of the age Of
protection to Is years.
The largest of our enterprises, the
Worlds Women's Christian Temper
ance Union, continues to hold on it's
way rejoicing, Mrs. Levitt does not
think OF coming home as yet. She
will thoroughly explore India, plant
ing our stations at all eligible points;
will go thence to Madagascar, Africa,
Asia Minor and | know not where
besides. We must devise liberal
things for this work We must at
this Convention arrange defnita e.
nancial basis, as our British sisters
have done, so that our National Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union
may he related to the Worlds Wom-
ems Christian Temperance Union as
our state auxiliares are to Us by the
golden link which alone can attach US
to the putting engine that has started
on its regular world-around trips.
We ought to rejoice in the develop.
ment of athletic sports for women as
well as men, since whatever conduces
to the natural tonic and stimulus of
outdoor life leads away from all mar
cotic drugs AS temperance people
we must no longer leave our inter-
ssts undefended in Washington.
suggest that this convention invite
the sons of temperance, Good Tenn
plars and Prohibition party to com.
bine with US in the effort to engage a
Christian temperance lawyer at
Washington, who shall watch our in
terests as carefully as their agents do
those of the brewers and distillers.
/ have always been opposed to Sc.
cret societies, and never more so than
to-day. They are relic of medieval
times and destined to become extinct.
But the Good Templars and the
Knights of Labor have so much in
them that is praiseworthy; their Sc
cretism is so nominal and their pur-
poses 80 helpful that it has always
seemed to me they formed exceptions
to the general rule. | believe they
will not always be secretive in name,
but that this useless feature will fade
away and merge into the light of
common day. 1t is satisfaction to
note the triumph of the better element
in the knights of Labor over the An
archists and Socialists, the growing
influence of Mr.. Powderly and the
fearlessness of his utterances and Mr..
Litchman's concerning temperance.
But in these days we feed and
clothe the poor to wisest purpose
when we show them how to feed and
clothe themselves. Temperance does
that, industrial training, better wages,
shorter hours of work, cooperation,
arbitration, all these modern modes
of blessing will claim for those who
work to bring them the holy declara-
tion from the lips of the carpenters
SOD, "Ye did it unto me-"
If DR.. Parker had waited until
after Thanksgiving Day to be zap.
palled, amazed, oppressed" he would
have made himself better under